Upgrading versions

[GarySaved]

Up till now when you upgrade from one version of Fedore to the next, the answer to upgrading has always been to backup your information, and do a fresh install.
To someone who has used Linux for a while, and is comfortable with tar, this is not a problem. To someone thinking of migrating from windows, this would be unexceptable.

Is there any effort going on to make it reliable to do an upgrade from FC4 to FC5?

[nlkrio]

from fc3 to fc4 you can,look here for more info
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq#head-bee4591f4bebe867a1cfbbef57475418fe6bc228

so you can from fc4 to fc5

[GarySaved]

from fc3 to fc4 you can,look here for more info
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq#head-bee4591f4bebe867a1cfbbef57475418fe6bc228

so you can from fc4 to fc5

I read that, and it looks SCARY!
That would only be for experts. A new user would never be able to do that.

We need a RELIABLE method of upgrading, that is automated.

[glanz]

I know of many who have run into problems upgrading, but it has worked for me with Fedora. I have done it twice and, to my surprise, it worked in spite of the usual warnings. I did back up a few essentials though, but it wasn't even necessary. My upgrades were like clean installs because I used a CD to back up some data before doing it.

Think of it this way: the worse that can happen is being obliged to do a clean install if something goes wrong. If you have essential data backed up externally, that shouldn't be a problem either. Just be careful with the installer and take it slow because I found that using the "back" button to correct choices during installs of any kind, doesn't usually work.

[nlkrio]

personaly I download only the first fedora cd and I do a minimal installation and then i install the rest by using yum.Expect thet i have create a separate home partition so the upgrading is easy

[GarySaved]

So nobody is going to address this?
Not having a reliable system to update from one version to the next is a MAJOR problem.

Lets try to take care of this before it really becomes an issue!

Gary

[brunson]

Most of my systems are upgraded from FC3 to FC4. I've got one system I've reliably upgraded from FC1 to 2 to 3 and finally to 4, I'm not sure what you're talking about. A backup is a precaution, but not a requirement.

[bob]

GarySaved, if you want it addressed, go to the proper site: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate and make your points there. The developers don't monitor this Forum and your comments won't reach the right people here.

[ShibbyCoder]

does anyone know if its going to be possible to upgrade from a test version to the release version? would one simply do a yum update? because itd be really nice to not have to download the 3.1GB again simply because i have test 2 and the release version is out :)